`Jacks`: Brando`s Eccentric Western

January 28, 1986|By Roger Hurlburt, Staff writer

1961`s celebrated western One-Eyed Jacks (8 p.m. WFLX-Ch. 39) has become something of a cult film. Eccentric and often self-indulgent, the film provides Marlon Brando with a pity role as an outlaw out of prison searching for the friend who betrayed him. Brando is in offbeat control throughout; Stanley Kubrick began as director and was fired by the star, who took over direction himself. Sporadic bouts of violence create a ragged edge to the story. With Karl Malden and Katy Jurado.